Re: Accusative, Dative, ?

> > Joshua's "jurative" sounds more like an instrumental to me.  I like tha=
t=20
> >  idea anyhow.
> > =20
>=20
> it sounds like a fourth-ranking role according to the "verbal mapping" of=
 a=20
> word whose definition is arbitrarily decided by its demiurge a.k.a. Joshu=
a=20
> Shinavier ;-) : instrument, location, ablative, adhessive or whatever it =
is.
> it makes me think of japanese "ni" clitic (very handy a clitic).
>=20
> >  Danny
>=20
> mathias
Decided by its demiurge, yes.  Arbitrarily decided by its demiurge, no.
You call me a "rare perfectionist" on your conlang page and then you go on
to call my choice of objects arbitrary.  I must say I find your lack of fai=
th
disturbing (inside joke :).

No, this particular word, ve"g, belongs to a class of several roots with th=
e
same basic structure -- any complexity which can be taken out of the indivi=
dual
semantic word and used in the definition of the valency group simplifies th=
e
definitions of all words concerned.  The idea is to maximize this common
information, and this is not an arbitrary process.

You do not know the power of the Dark Side.

Josh

        _/_/      _/_/  _/_/_/_/   Joshua Shinavier            =20
         _/        _/  _/         Loorenstrasse 74, Zimmer B321=20
        _/        _/  _/_/_/_/   CH-8053 Z=FCrich              =20
 _/    _/  _/    _/        _/   Switzerland                 =20
_/_/_/_/  _/_/_/_/  _/_/_/_/   jshinavi@g26.ethz.ch

Danov=EBn pages: http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Crete/5555/ven.htm